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Record Number: LIW0007

Related Work: Waverley

Illustration Title/Caption: Penrith

Keyword(s): Mountains & Hills - Sheep

Artist: Peter De Wint

Engraver: Edward Francis Finden

Work Type: steel engraving

Size(cm): 8 x 12

Date: 1832

Source Text: Landscape Illustrations of the Waverley Novels, with Descriptions of the Views, 2 vols (London: Charles Tilt, 1832)

Position in Source Text: vol. 1, facing p. 7

Location of Copy: EUL, Corson H.MAR.1

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts the town of Penrith, with grazing sheep and mountains in the background. Accompanying quoted text (p. 7): 'If that hill were Benmore . . . scenery' [Ch. 59; EEWN 1, 294.12-13]. Legend states published April 1830.

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